Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.
Daniel 3: 28-30
After Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fiery furnace, king Nebuchadnezzar was understandably awed by what he had seen. The God of Israel had delivered them from the fire. He immediately made a decree that anyone who would speak anything against this God would be “cut in pieces” and that their houses would be “made a dunghill.” While that is not the method God would have us use in bringing people to Him, to have to at least admire Nebuchadnezzar’s newfound zeal.
He found that zeal because he had seen something beyond the realm of possibility. He had seen God deliver and deliver completely. He made a statement in verse 29 that sticks out to me. He was awed because he realized that “there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.” The pagan king Nebuchadnezzar was able to see that there is only one God Who could deliver those men like He delivered them. It was one thing for them to come out of the fire alive. It was another thing for them to come out of the fire with no evidence that they had ever been in the fire!
Today, we can speak with Nebuchadnezzar when we say “there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.” There is no other God can deliver us from sin like He can. There is no other God that can deliver us from ourselves like He can. He saves and He saves to the uttermost!